WFDF World Ultimate and Guts Championships begin

The 12th WFDF World Ultimate and Guts Championships get off to a flying start in Vancuver, Canada. Check out the WUGC 2008 website for details.

US Open Individual Overall Results

25 July 2008

The results are in for the US OPEN Overall Tournament from Lancaster, PA. WFDF World Titles on the line were for Self Caught Flight and Discathon.

WFDF Bylaws Task Force completes it work with proposal for revised Bylaws

12 July 2008

Attached is the proposed revision to the Bylaws of WFDF prepared by the WFDF Bylaws Revision Task Force. We encourage all WFDF members to review this draft as we will seek your approval of it at Congress in Vancouver to replace the current version of the Bylaws, which went into effect in 2001.

WFDF World Ultimate Club Championships 2010 Bidders Announced

10 May 2008

WFDF is pleased to have received three bids to host WUCC 2010. Bid packages were received from Brasilia, Brazil; Nottingham, UK; and Prague, Czech Republic. WFDF will present the winning bid during the World Ultimate & Guts Championships running August 2-9th in Vancouver, BC, Canada. WFDF is also currently seeking hosts for the 2009 PanAm Ultimate Championships, the 2009 Asia Oceanic Ultimate Championship, and the 2010 World Junior Ultimate Championship. Please review this bidding information if you are interested in hosting a WFDF event in your city.

Japan Wins Gold at WFDF Asia-Oceanic Ultimate Championships

10 December 2007

The 1st ever WFDF Asia-Oceanic Ultimate Championships were held from December 7-9, 2007 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Japan continued to display their dominance in recent WFDF events winning the tournament 15-11 over Australia. The host team from Chinese Taipei rounded out the top three, taking bronze with a 15-13 win over Philippines.
More information will be posted shortly. Reports from the Australian team can be found on the AFDA website.

WFDF Board Election Now Open

06 December 2007

The 2007 election for the WFDF Board of Directors is now open. Voting will close on December 19, 2007. If you are an eligible voting member (Regular & Organisational WFDF Members in good standing) and have not received you ballot information, please be in touch with
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. Further information about the election can be found in our Election Policy Document and the 2007 Election Announcement. All voting members are strongly encouraged to participate in the election, and good luck goes out to all of the candidates.

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Latest WFDF Communiques

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is pleased to announce that the WFDF 2017 World Team Disc Golf Championships (WTDGC 2017) will be played in the city of Colchester on the Classic Course at the University of Essex from Wednesday 23rd – Saturday 26th August, 2017. Located in southern England, Colchester hosted the 2012 European Disc Golf Championships and has been re-designed and re-equipped with new baskets for this event. Technical Director Charlie Mead has coordinated with the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) and they have determined that the WTDGC 2017 will be a Major event. This will help bring interest from the top players in the world for points and rankings and also increase visibility among the community.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is excited to announce that it is sanctioning the 2017 World Great Grand Masters Beach Ultimate Championships (WGGMBUC) which will be hosted in Lisbon, Portugal from 17-21 June 2017. This announcement comes after WFDF received 200 bids for the 2017 WCBU and received interest from eight nations to host a championship for the Great Grand Masters division, the first for the age division. Any player who is 48 years as of December 31, 2017 will be eligible to play and the tournament will be an open division format.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is pleased to announce that its national member association in the United Kingdom, UK Ultimate, has been awarded formal recognition as the UK National Governing Body (NGB) for Ultimate by the home country sports councils: Sport England, sportNI, sportScotland and Sport Wales. Ultimate was officially recognized in the UK as a sporting activity in 2008.

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Ultimate Frisbee club teams to play in ground-breaking regional tournament

Interest in disc sports is growing around the world, and there’s no better place to see that happening than in the Middle East and North Africa with Ultimate Frisbee.

Twelve teams featuring players from across the region are about to take part in the Second MENA Ultimate Club Championships from 18-19 November in Amman, Jordan. The tournament will include - for the first time - most of the established club teams in the region, from as far as Egypt to the West, across the Gulf to United Arab Emirates in the East, and Lebanon to the North.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) Board of Directors has reacted enthusiastically to the announcement that the initial edition of the ANOC World Beach Games (WBG) in 2019 will include the Flying Disc sport of Beach Ultimate. The San Diego Organizing Committee for the WBG have released the list of 19 sports being included in their sports programme for the initial edition of these games, all of which are different disciplines to any contested in the Olympic programme. The announcement followed meetings between San Diego and ANOC officials at last month’s Asian Beach Games in Danang. San Diego has proposed that the event be held from 10-20 October 2019.

WFDF’s Board of Directors and Ultimate Committee are pleased to announce that the WFDF 2018 World Ultimate Club Championships (WUCC) will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA from Saturday 14th to Saturday 21st July 2018. The event will be held at the Lebanon Sports Complex, which has 28 full sized Ultimate fields, with the finals to be held at a local high school stadium. WUCC is the premier club championships event for the flying disc discipline of Ultimate. The event is held every four years and is comprised of city club teams who are endorsed by their National Federations. The 2018 WUCC will be comprised of Men’s, Women’s and Mixed divisions, with Masters Division competitions held separately for the first time.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) announced today that it had established an Advisory Council to assist its board and officers with the development of strategic policy initiatives. The six person Advisory Council is comprised of Vincent Gaillard, who will serve as chair, Peter Bayer, Val Belmonte, Mary-Clare Brennan, Jay Stuart, and Christian Wassmer.

WFDF is seeking enthusiastic, skilled and committed candidates for its 2016 Elections. Complete nominations must be received by the Nominating Committee by Friday, November 4, 2016. The target date for the start of the elections is November 15, 2016, with a targeted end date of December 15, 2016. Results should be announced by December 31, 2016 subject to confirmation of acceptance by elected candidates.

Will be forced to restrict registrations and team sizes despite 50% increase in expected capacity
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) announces that it had received requests for bids to send teams to the 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU) from an unprecedented and unexpected number of countries. After working with the local event organizers, the event capacity was able to be increased to 120 teams, but WFDF will still have to restrict registrations and team sizes for the event because of absolute capacity constraints. The WCBU will be held on the beaches of Royan, France, over the week of 18-24 June 2017.

The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) announced today that its board had appointed José Pires of France as interim chair of the Beach Ultimate Committee. He will also join the board and serve through December 2016. Pires replaces Patrick van der Valk, who had resigned for personal reasons. Pires, who had been the Deputy chair of the committee, does not intend to run for election in December and so the search for candidates for the next two-year term beginning 1 January 2017 has begun immediately.